Mail forward does not work

[skrieg2]

[solved] Mail forward does not work

Hi,

I've got a problem with mail forward. Plesk is messing up with dot-qmail files.

When I Create a mail user it's ok

| true
./Maildir/

When I add a forward this will never work !

| true
./Maildir/
&[email protected]

Please help.
thanks

 

[Anton Akola]

I think this is a defective qmail patch resulting in some (all ?) cases in aliases not working.

Looks to me related to my problem:
http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43535

 

[skrieg2]

Hi,

Thanks for answering, The thread you mentionned is about another probleme (which I'm victim of too).

I'm talking about the "/var/qmail/mailnames/*/*/.qmail" file located in user's directory and modifications applied by Plesk when adding a forward address.

It seems that Plesk does not edit user's .qmail files the right way.

What is the default content of such a file when a user is created ? Is it the same as mine mentionned above ? What is the content of this very file when a forward is applied ?

Thanks.

 

[Anton Akola]

The content of the .qmail file you've posted seems perfectly alright to me.

The content of these files is described there: dot-qmail man page

So I think both problems are really only one.

You could check your mail log (/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog in my case) to see if you can come up with any error message more specific to your case.

 

[skrieg2]

This code will forward *and* store a copy in the maildir. This is surely not what people want ... but this is what Plesk writes.

| true
./Maildir/
&[email protected]

 

[danliker]

just disable the mailbox, if you don't like that...

 

[skrieg2]

You're right. Problem solved.

I suffer from lack of logic sometimes. That was not a problem.

Thanks.